St. Andrews Medicine Applicants 2011 :D

If you can't convince applicants who are in the same position as you, hence more understanding of your reasoning etc. What makes you think you will be able to convince the interviewers? :/

total sense....i know they do a full body dissection which will be fasinating and also studying in two colleges will gie me great experience...i'm an avid golfer which also is a contributing golfer..if your saying thati'm not committed enough that is not through at all

Nope. What made you think that?

Exactly!!!
And considering half the interview talk is about the course :/

Lol. Tbh, I think you should have applied for an English course

no idea just had it in my head for some reason you were like from manchester or somewhere!

I think he already left... or... maybe he's still there watching us from the dark

hi there! did you have an interview?

nope i don't, had an interview on the 9th february, how do u feel your interview went?

Yeah mines was really friendly aswell! They specifically told me that they weren't going to ask me why I wanted to do medicine, that they knew I wanted to do medicine already! They went straight onto course structure and why st andrews etc.

I've only had one interview at st andrews, not heard back from aberdeen, and rejected from glasgow and dundee.....damn ukcat Again I shall reiterate my promise of running round my street naked if I get an offer! I really don't want to take a gap year, especially as I will have to cram the Fcuk out of advanced higher chemistry if I do This month shall be the longest of my life no doubt!

EDIT: p.s. quite drunk while writing this, so I apologise if this doesn't make much sense!

hi there! did you have an interview?

wow this is all getting a little heated on this discussion forum isn't it lol! but yeah you can't base an application to medicine on place alone that would just be silly!!!

Anyone receive offers today at all? This wait is the most nervewracking experience of my life....

I had a dream during my power nap today that I got an offer ... doesn't really count for much in real life though :/

I did on Wednesday . Did you?

Haha ok lol



Sorry ... just couldn't stop. I would hate it if I didn't get in and he did ... considering how much effort I put into the interview and how much research I did on the course!!



Teafil you do make me laugh!

mine was on a wednesday as well (doh all of them were on wednesday)... 9th of february

How do you think yours went?

it'd be a dream come true!!

mine was on a wednesday as well (doh all of them were on wednesday)... 9th of february

How do you think yours went?



:d you have no idea how stressed i am. I was studying today for the Bio Olympiad and all i could think of was "I knew this before my interview. why the hell didn't i relate it to the questions? it would have sounded so smart!". Can you believe it it's only been 24 hours since yesterday? :O I felt them more like 24 months

Haha I understood - you're drunk and spending time on TSR? interesting combination lol I was so glad they didn't ask me why as I still have no (verbal) answers lol

High-5 for dundee rejection! I got rejected imediately a few days before christmas, but least it wasn't on Christmas Eve I guess. I've not heard back from Aberdeen either, I really wish they'd hurry up! If they were going to reject us, could they not have done it already by now! Interesting reaction to an offer but hey, its one hell of a way to celebrate. if I have to take a gap year I'll cry because it'll mean doing the UKCAT again :/ Not too long to go though hopefully!

Come on, what's more likely to help a patient, a sound knowledge of human biology or noticing that if you count up all the shaded shapes inside the trapezium, all of the sides add up to 15.

Haha, strange, I know! I had just got back in from a friends house, and had a wee shot on this before bed

Yeah, having to do the UKCAT would be a nightmare! I'd prepare for it soo much more than I did this time around, especially as Dundee sent me a letter about my rejection saying that it was the only reason I didn't get interviewed But hopefully neither of us won't be in that position!

Obviously I'm biased, but I would like them to not use the UKCAT test for admissions. I understand that there is so little between so many candidates, but they should just use a different test! The BMAT sounds a lot better, having to rely on your knowledge of science would give a much better indication of how likely a person is to get through the medicine course, rather than an arbitrary IQ test. Come on, what's more likely to help a patient, a sound knowledge of human biology or noticing that if you count up all the shaded shapes inside the trapezium, all of the sides add up to 15 But again, completely biased here

The point is that you could always learn the human body (hell, you get 6 years of a medicine course to learn that!) whereas you wouldn't necessarily be able to "learn" to count up all the shaded shapes inside a trapezium, in the first place i.e. you wouldn't have thought of it.